Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1946 — Page 1

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GRAND JURORS OPEN HEARING IN 2 SLAYINGS

Woolridge Is Present as -Group Is Selected; 4 Officers Testify.

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Times Special BLOOMINGTON, March 17. ~Joseph L. Woolridge, confessed slayer of Russell E: Koontz and Mrs. Phyllis Coleman, was brought here today from Pendleton reformatory and asked if he objected to grand jury selections, Monroe Circuit Judge Q. Austin East ordered Woolridge's appearance “to take every precaution in the rd Woolridge stated he knew none of the jurors and thus had no objection. He was returned to Pendleton after offering no objection to being held there. The prisoner

was in the custody of Monroe coun=ty Sheriff Albert Skirvin; Ray Hinkle; state police detective, and Ray Newgent, state police officer. Prosecutor Robert McCrea called four witnesses to testify in the first session on evidence which was heard in his office. Officers Testify Jurors impaneled this morning are Richard Wampler, Ellettsville | barber; Date E. Rush, farmer; Har- | old B. Wegmiller, lumberman; | George V. Eller, farmer; Paul Maylor, Johnson creamery employee

Clyde Fiscus, operator of a trucking firm. First witnesses called were State] Trooper Gene Trowbridge, Deputy! Sheriff Noble Sciscoe, Lt. Eugene St. John of the state police, and Dr. Ray Borland, Monroe county coroner. Prosecutor McCrea, assisted by Deputy Prosecutor Nat U. Hill, will demand indictments charging Woolridge with two first degree murders. The prosecution will attempt to send ¢ ‘to death in the ~used Ey. sim Ask Another J

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Jury will return the indictments asked and feel that the trial in the sensational murder of the “choir sweethearts” will be set for the April term. Delays in bringing Woolridge to trial are anticipated on the part] of the killer's attorney, Lawrence Shaw of Indianapolis. It is possible that the case will not come before a frial jury until the first of the year. Some belief is expressed that -a different judge might be requested as Judge East recently sentenced a brother of Woolridge to a 60-day Jail term. At that time Woolridge, in anger, reportedly attempted to threaten Judge East over the sentencing of his brother, but was barred from seeing him. Prosecutor McCrea said that work of the jury will not be completed until the middle of next week. Authorities Keep Mum

Meanwhile #uthorities remained “mum” on one of the most sensational aspects of the murder of the choir director and the attractive copper<haired choir singer. The packet of love letters, found in Mrs. Coleman's purse in Mr. Koontz's locked car at the scene of the crime in abandoned Hunter ‘stone quarry, still is “in absentia.” The prosecutor's office and County Coroner Ray Borland, in whose possession. the letters are reported to be, steadfastly, have refused 3o/

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IT'S WARM HERE AND COLD IN STATE

LOCAL TEMPERATURES wv 10am .. 4 v4 11 8.1m... 49 . 42 12 (noon) .. 52 1pm... 58

You Indianapolis residents can be glad you're you. The weatherman today forecast a fair day with showers tonight and tomorrow and little change in temperature. The same couldn't be said for the northern portion of the state, A mass of cold air moving down the northwest Canadian provin , TAD! and was expected to extend to Infliana by nightfall. At the international border early today it was 10 degrees below zero.

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Movies ... 24-25 Robert Musel, 15 Obituaries... 5 Dr. Orien .... 11 J. E. O'Brien. 26 Radio 30 Reflections... 18 Mrs. Roosevelt 17 Robert Ruark 24 Science 17 State Deaths. 5 Sports ... 26-27 Stranahan 26 State Deaths. 5 Troop-Arrivals 13 Washington. . 18 Women's... 22-23 World Affalrs 18

Amuse. ... Barrows ..... Business ,... 31 Classified. 28-29 Crossword ... 30 Comics 30 18 22 18 23 23 18 14 17 3 30 ST 31

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Fashions Forum Meta Given, , Homemaking Don Hoover. . G. I. Rights . Inside Indpls.. In Indpls. Jane Jordan.

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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 310

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Battle Continues Here Over 'Plasmic Therapy’ Machines

By DONNA MIKELS

“The heat's still on!” This, in effect, is the challenge strument Co. to the state board of

battle of the “magic boxes” got under way. “The medical company was referring to the heat issuing from “plasmic Sr Aurich ie SWRABIRRS of hoaiths Placed BH ehIBAED

last: “of health, forced to call off the embargo because of a legal technicality, meant the “heat” which it planned to put on the company until some of the company's claims for the machines’ miraculous curative powers are checked out. Attorney Challenges Board The state board of health placed an embargo on the company's office in the Architect's and Builder’s building as it launched an investigation of. the machine which “pasteurizes the blood and can cure many a disease through a heat treatment.” The firm's attorney, Walter G. Todd, today said he had challenged the state board of health to fulfill all the requirements of the law under which it had placed the embargo. The one which he had reference to was a clause requiring the board to file a suit within five days after the embargo, something they “apparently are not prepared to do.” Embargo Lifted No suit was filed and the embargo was lifted, said Mr. Todd. A state board of health spokesman today admitted that the embargo had been lifted—"“temporarily.” This, it was added, “in no way

the requirements of the law.” What it does mean is that a legal technicality made ' it necessary.

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PRIMARY FIGHT GROUPS LOOMS

Regulars and City Hall May Clash Over Sheriff, Prosecutor Posts.

By NOBLE REED The hottest Republican primary fights appeared today to be centering around control of law enforcement, A three-way contest is developing rapidly in the race for the prosecutor nomination and at present factional lines are stiffening for a showdown battle for the nomination for sheriff. Members of the, city hall faction, although denying publicly that it will participate actively against the regular organization in. this primary, are coming up fast behind the scene, especially in the two law enforcement offices. Want United Front Since Mayor Tyndall will be in office two more years. under the municipal skip-election law passed by the last legislature, the city hall leaders are out to capture the county law enforcement offices to present a united front with the police department in 1947. With both the sheriff's office and prosecutor under control of the city hall group, city administration leaders see a clear road ahead to nominate their own choice as a mayoralty successor to Mr, Tyndall next year, The three-way fight prosecutor » race involves a

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Leaders Agree He Should’ Take Party Chairmanship. | (Photo, Page 4)

By ROBERT BLOEM Senator Raymond: Willis and Governor Gates “agreed heartily” today that Rep. Charles Halleck | (R., 2d Dist.) should be the next | Republican national chairman, But they steered clear of senatorial picture, The - hour-long. conference left | the Hoosier senior senator right | where he was before on the mat-| ter of seeking renomination. Un- | officially he's scheduled to be] {purged in favor of a younger can-| |didate. Officially he lacks any com- | mitment. of any kind from the | party's head, the governor. ’ After the conference, which took! in politics, flood control, surplus |

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‘CARDINAL GLENNON'S | CONDITION IS WORSE

DUBLIN, March 7 (U. P.).—John |

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BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, March 7 (U.

P.).—The house today passed a (fection since he left the United |of Paul Brewer for county recorder. | fo

diluted version of the Patman housing bill after -beating down a final move to kill the measure, The vote was 357 to 24. (Earlier details, page 4).

Cardinal Glennon's condition took | a turn for the worse today and his {secretary announced that the 82-|year-old St. Louis prelate had de- | veloped “a slight congestion of the | lungs.” | The aged cardinal had been suffernig from a mindr bronchial in- |

States last motith to attend thel papal consistory in Rome at which | he was elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals. His secretary said the lung congestion developed last night.

‘Discrimination’ Charged by (SOUTH: BEND GIRL | Legion Over Liquor Permit| NAMED SHIP'S QUEEN

American Legion officials in Frenth Lick, interpationally-known spa, today charged the alcoholic beverage commission had “discriminated” against their local post by refusing it a liquor license. “In view of. certain generallyknown vices in town, we feel the commission’s action was discriminatory,” said E. W. Beatty, French Lick post service officer. The license application was rejected by the A. B. C. here yesterday. R. A. Fenness, post vice-chairman, said he spoke for the “entire Legion membership here in saying we haven't been given a square deal. We asked no special favors. We intended fo restrict liquor sales to members only.” He also charged that many of the 500 signers, of a petition against issuance of the license “live entirely outside the city . . . two or three people started it.” He said the ministerial association backed the

Mr. Fenness said the Legion post itself boasts a membership of 250. Thus the little resort center, 1 whose total population is only 2042, appeared torn into two major factions. “It's a pretty warm subject down here,” Mr. Fenness declared by telephone from French Lick today. He said he doubted if the post would appeal the A. B. C.'s decision to the governor, a former state Legion commander, Both he and Mr. Beatty sald “certain gambling activities” in the area appeared to be matters of general knowledge, Of the commission's decision to deny the license, Alcoholic Beverages Commissioner Burrell E. Diefendorf asserted: “We considered it a long time and it seemed “the majority of the people were against granting the lciense. We're pretty sympathetic to the Legion boys, but we feel obliged to abide by the

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| Alex Clark, veteran of world war II ‘land Leo Brown, deputy prosecutor | in charge of grand jury investiga-

ions. Mr. Clark is being pushed by the | Republican war veterans branch of | the party and many of the regular organization ward chairmen. Mr. Brown, a ward chairman and {active in the regular organization for many years, is reputedly sup{ported by at least half of the precinct = committeemen ‘and ward chairmen. Talk among city administration | fhclats is that Glenn Funk, assistant city “attorney, may try again {for the prosecutor nomination. Mr. {Punk ran twice for the prosecutor nomination in the past but was de|feated by the regular organization.

Roy Jackson in Race In the sheriff's race regular organization alignments appear to be {getting behind Sgt. Charles Russell, {a special investigator in the prosecutor's office; about 100 per cent.

Opposing him is expected to. be Roy Jackson, city market master, whose support-is supposedly coming |from the city hall and from follow-| ers of Sheriff Otto Petit. | Talk is goig the rounds that the| regular organization leaders will turn, “thumbs down” this time on} William T. Ayres if he runs for re-| [nomination for county commissioner, | Also “thumbs down” rumor has | been put out by regular organiza- | |tion leaders against renomination

Otherwise, the regular organiza-| tion appears to have clear sailing, in’ pitting! {over a slate of candidates for the rest of the_county offices without any major Showdewn feghts.

Cape Gloucester Crew Pays For Flight to California.

SAN DIEGO, March 7 (U. P.).— Selected from B50 photographs of crew members’ girl friends, Miss

Emma Lou Wood, 19, of South Bend, Ind.,, was due to arrive here tomorrow as, “Queen of the Cape,” members of the escort carrier Cape Gloucester announced tonight. Contributions from the more than 500 crew members are paying for Emma Lou to fly here from South Bend to survey her reign as well as visit here for five days. Miss Wood will receive her crown and a gift from crew members at a ship's party at swank ‘Hotel Del Coronado Monday night before she returns home Tuesday, ‘Miss Wood's picture was submitted by Burhs J. Hummer, pharmacist’'s mate second class,

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Fight Possible Eviction From Century Building

Representing the 64 protesting firms of the Century building who face eviction if the VA takes over the structure are (left to right) Nicholas Connner, E. §. Wheaton, D. A, Sweeney, E. Russell Etter

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PHONE STRIKE IS GALLED OFF

Softlement Is f Is Announced. Just Before Deadline.

By UNITED PRESS A nation-wide telephone tieup | was averted today and President Truman . prepared. to -appo - | enf¥eney Board. Inia:

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| strike. The National Federation of Tele-| {phone Workers and the American Telephone and Telegraph Co.! reached an agreement providing {weekly wage increases pf $5 to $8. Conciliation Director Edgar L. | Warren announced the agreement! j less than 30 minutes before the 6, ‘a. m. deadline set for a walkout! {which would have added 250,000 to! the nation's 843,000 strike idled! workers. The announcement came too late! to forestall a partial disruption of! service. Operators in Philadelphia | and Pittsburgh already had left| their switchboards. -8ervice was re- | stored later nh the day. Name Rail Panel |

The White House announced that | President Truman will appoint an emergency board ‘very. shortly” in

an attempt to avert a strike of 300,- |

000 railroad trainmen and locomo- | tive engineers scheduled for Monday. Appointment of the board at least would postpone the strike for 30 to 60 days while the panel investigates the dispute, The telephone agreement, .an nounced after an all night session, was the result of almost 31 hours of continuous conferences between representatives of thé union, telephone industry and the labor department. The wage agreement specifically affected only the 19,300 members of the long lines union, but MY. Warfren said it set a “national patterns for the ultimate settlement of all wage disputes in the telephone industry. The increases are retroactive to Feb. 1.

17.6 Cents Per Hour The long lines agreement called r wage increases ranging from |$5 to $8 a week. Mr. Warren said {this was equivalent to an average increase’ of 17.6 cent? an nour. The| {union originally had demanded 25! cents and later scaled down its demands to 18% cents. | Mr. Warren said the agreement! also settled a two-month-old strike| by 17,300 members of the Western Electric Employees Association, an N. PF. T. W. affiliate, at Western |

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Russia as Country Involved,

WASHINGTON, March 7 (U. P.).—Chairman John 8, Wood (D. Ga.) said today that his house un-American activities committee has dis« covered a foreign spy ring working between New York and Oak Ridge, Tenn, one of the gove ernment’s atomic bomb plants, = Rep. Wood refused to say what nation was involved. But a commits tee source said “there could be only one foreignt nation involved in this ring—Russia.” Canada recently announced that | Russian agents in that country had | sought information about atomic | developments, as well as other se- | cret wartime inventions. Mr, Wood had said earlier that the spy ring was pun by foreigners, but that “there might be som. Americans involved.” Believes Centered in East “We have gone far enough in our | investigation to show,” he said, | “that there are elements in this country who are decidedly information that our military authorities have not authorized to be

VA Is Offered Union Title Structure as Central Agency

By VICTOR PETERSON The Union Title building, Market and Delaware sts, has been offered *to the yetgrans Administration as a downtown lozauuu sven out.” r centralize all activities, it was learned today. The building was offered by Klein & Kuhn realtors within the out] And “you know what is going on three or four months, but no action has been taken to ante, } Merrill wh Ouk Ridge,” Mr. Wood told re= Cummins, distriet VA head, said. g “We have not accepted this build |ing or any others to date although |

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one” he sald “There have been sevgral build- | { Ings offered to us.” he added. Mr. Cummins declined to disc any buildings which might be un-! der. consideration. : He zal tended to leave town for a .week. no —_ to make ps EE Banker Heads State Com- He UM no uy hat, ho intended 8 : is 20 to ge, but it was learn vestigating the. Union ie via mittee Supporting British. (that he will look into the spy ring The Century building, Pennsyt- Merchants National bank and iy Oak Ridge is the site of an ime vania and Maryland sts, meanwhile man of the Indiana Trust Co, to- \mense plant, secretly built at great was not ruled out as a possible VA | day announced he had accepted | cost during the war, in which rare |location. It had become a storm| chairmanship: of an Indiana com- | yranjum of atomic weight 235 is jcentér when mentioned as a pos-| mittee to support the loan to!separated from the commoner sible ‘site, Britain. " U-238, U-235 is the easily fission« Hold Mass Meetings - Request that he ‘able material which was used in Today, firms in the building| take the lead in @ the first atomic bomb that de- | massed their strength for a protest | Indiana came by g stroyed Hiroshima. against eviction by the VA which telegram from Also at Oak Ridge are. nuclear would put 64 companies out in the| Winthrop W. Ald- {laboratories and pilot plants for the street. rich, chairman of {production of plutonium from UTwo. mass meetings of tenants| th © Internation |238. The major plutonium pro= have been held and a committee 1s Lconomic Policy b duction center, however, is at Han= functioning to protest the eviction COM mittee in ford, Wash. Plutonium has fission which would follow VA control. | Vashington, Mr. able characteristics similar to those The committee already has con-| I renzel said. of U-235, and was believed to have

Rep. Wood said the committee may hold public hearings in ine vestigating the spy ring, He said an undercover committee inquiry: | has been going on since August, {when the first, atomic bomb was | dtopped on Japan, The Russian quest for atomic in[formation ‘in Canada had raised {fears that Soviet agents might also be operating in this country. However, Secretary of State James PF. {Byrnes said recently that U. 8. atomic secrets were believed to be

tacted Rep. Louis Ludlow, who to- The wire said {been used in the bomb dropped om * {Continued on Page 3—Column 5) | | beyond economic effects, Approval of this loan will make real progress peace.” JOKE ON BARTENDER “I think there should be a loan : : : . future as well as for a number of | | ‘ Paid With Note on Unique other reasons,” Mr. Frenzel said in| He said two well-known Hoosier | any more t¥icks on local bartend- bankers, Charles Busching,. presi-| Race ave, today was discharged | Leonard B. Marshall, president of Mr. Wood was understood to be on a petit larceny count in munici- | the Terre Haute First National|seeking a conference with Director tee. Mr. Busching also is president | sources said Mr, wood and commitster Carrothers paid for four beers |of the Indiana Bankers’ association. {tee investigators also have been in was imprinted: “The Unique States | cated. The justice department, mean of America. . . . This certificate is | FORMER PRESIDENT | while, informed the senate atomie much less counterfeit,” Detective | atom bomb secrets from foreign Gilby told Judge Joseph Howard. former president of the Bern Bros.|it sald that espionage on a wide~ scale was possible in this country

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Electric's Kearny, N. J, plant: For| pended the sentence. He discharged commercial bodies and wygon manWestern Electric Workers to whom| the petit larceny count because ufacturers, died today at his home,

Otto Frenzel {in part: Nagasaki. “The significance of the loan goes DRINKER FORGIVEN not- only in world economics, but | | will be a definite step toward world or some sort of assistance “to Brit ain for the good of our economic : y «commenting on his acceptance of | States of America.” |fPrHenise © After promising he wouldn't wn {dent of the Lincoln National Bank | : ers, Earl Carrothers, 30, of 300 Mill and Trust Co. of Ft. Wayne, and Colores With Hoover pal court 3. | bank, already had pledged support|J. Edgar Hoover of the. federal buto the “Loan to Britain” commit- |reau of investigation, Committee Detective George Gilby said Joke- | at the Ritz tavern, 444 W. Wash-| Membership of the committee will | touch with war department officials ington st., with a “$5 bill” on which |be named soon, Mr. Frenzel indi-|in charge of the bomb's security. of absolutely no vlaue.” committee that tougher federal It wasn't even good stage money, OF BERN BROS DEAD statutes were necessary to protect William Christian Frederick Grieb, |spys. In a report to the committee, under present laws, It urged the enactment of legislas

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Threat of Strike Is Ended

In Indiana Bell Agreement

As far as Indiana is concerned, threat of a telephone strike has| ended, union and company spokes- | men said today. Final agreement between affiliates | of the National Federation of Telephone Workers. and’ negotiators for| Indiana Bell Telephone was reached | during the night. So close to the strike deadline of 6 a. _m, was the séttlement that. some pickets ere already on hand | at telephone and telegraph installations this morning before they, could be notified the Strike was | off, William Wells of the Indiana Telephone - Workers Sun,” in

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geles, and George V.,- Indianapolis, » and three daughters, Miss Louise] In scenic Morgan County just: a short drive from Indianapolis.’

Grieb, Miss Marion Grieb and Miss Hilda Alice Grieb. Ideal place for absentee owner to enjoy restful week-ends, or:

(Charge of state strike headquarters here, sald a wage compromise had been reached .and formal signing of an agreement set for 10 a. m. tomorrow. Telephone company

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ment, Wage increases ranged from $5 | to $8 weekly for plant employees and from $5 to $7 a week for traffic employees in ‘installations over the state, Mr. Wells said. “There are .some details: to be

SHORTAGE IN HAWAIL TOO

HONOLULU, March 7 (U. P.)— Stanley C. Kennedy, president of the Hawaiian Airlines and InterIsland Steam Navigation Co., today brushed’ up yet before the formal warned that the territory will not settlement tomorrow,” Mr. Wells|be ready to handle an influx of asserted, “but the agreement 1s{ tourists “for two or three years” be- ~ |cause of a shortage of 3} yang ho(Continued on Page Column 8) and Jecreationa) iaslitien,